Jean-Baptiste Biot
Jean-Baptiste Biot was born on April 21, 1774. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Jean-Baptiste Biot
Jean-Baptiste Biot (; French: [ʒɑ̃ batist bjo]; 21 April 1774 – 3 February 1862) was a French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician who co-discovered the Biot–Savart law of magnetostatics with Félix Savart, established the reality of meteorites, made an early balloon flight, and studied the polarization of light. The biot (a CGS unit of electrical current), the mineral biotite, and Cape Biot in eastern Greenland were named in his honour.